Meet Reshma Pathan: The real face behind Bollywood’s most famous Tonga Ride
For fifty years, audiences across India have cheered for Basanti and her loyal horse in Sholay, shouting Bhaag Dhanno bhaag. Yet the person risking her neck beneath the careening carriage was not Hema Malini, but a fourteen-year-old girl named Reshma Pathan.Growing up in the cramped lanes of Pydhonie in Mumbai as the eldest of seven…

